Lego Monkie Kid is a product.
I don’t intend to make any more posts of this style for some time, but I’d like to put this out here for everywhere:
(After this, I’ll go back to uploading my usual content. I’m sorry for deviating from that, but I really wanted to make a post or two about season five.)
Lego Monkie is a paid-for product. You can buy it through Amazon, watch it on the Lego Channel with ads, import the comics from China, etc.
You pay for it. It’s not something put into the world for free. It is a product that people consume with their time or money.
It’s not something made with only time and love.
Lego Monkie Kid is a paid-for product with thousands of dollars worth of tie-in merch.
It is not bad; and will never be bad, to criticize the products you consume. We do not have to blindly consume for the sake of animators, or for the sake of a show.
Do not tell people to ‘just be happy’. Do not tell people that ‘the animators are just trying to feed their families’. Do not tell people to ‘just get over it’. Do not tell people that they’re ‘being ungrateful’.
People are allowed to form opinions of changes, whether negative or positive- especially when it is a product they pay for.
People are going to have negative feelings and thoughts and emotions. You are not a knight or a soldier. You get nothing out of standing guard against even the slightest scrap of unhappiness.
Toxic positivity solves nothing in the long run. You can’t just complain people’s upsetness away. You can’t kiss disappointment like a wound and expect it to heal.
People are upset about a downgrade in quality in the product that they pay to consume.
Stop telling them it isn’t.